problem deer
 

is there something i can use to keep the deer away from shrubs small trees new grass --- is there a spray i can spray around the yard --- is there such a thing as wolf scent or big cat scent or something --- please let me no if theres something i can use besides putting wire around everything

RE: problem deer
 

let the poor starven things eat
you eat them be nice give back a little

i had problems with them eating my apple tree in the front yard. I enjoyed watching them but spent good money on that tree. then i found a new way to look at it

if i didnt want them to eat my trees i should not have planted them in the first place. I eat them(deer) they in turn can eat my trees i also leave all of the apple on the ground in the fall just to give them sum more food( I dont pile them up or nothin they still have to dig thru the snow for them)

just my $.02

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Here we get a product called blood meal off of the Conservation Officers. Blood meal is a powder that is spread around the area and is suppose to to keep the animals away. We have used this with mixed results sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I don't have a problem with letting the odd deer eat but i should show you pics of what 25 deer or better yet 80 some elk can do to a hay stack over night. Its one big mess and headache......

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You could go to your lobal barber shop and get some human hair off the floor. You can cut it up or use as is and sprinkle it on the ground or you could use some pantyhose and place the hair into it and hang it near where you don't want them to go. Deer will smell the human scent and not like it. Try it, what have to got to loose but some hair?

T

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I saw a guy on a show once who mixed soap, water and hot sauce together and put it in a spray bottle. He used it to spray his yard plants and shrubs. According to him it left a soapy film that did not harm the plants but due to the hot sauce burned the mouth of deer and rabbits that tried to eat them. I imagine the soap flavor isn't too good either. I have never tried it so I can't verify that it works.

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Wal Mart or your local farmers co-op should have a spray that you can use. I don't know how effective it is.

RE: problem deer
 

good old blood from a meat shop, or bones, but you might want to clean it up come spring

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This may be a "little different" but I know of a friend in Maine who swears by it..He uses dirty socks (as in very dirty socks), and hangs them near his garden. He can hide most of them so that no one is aware they are there. He leaves them there for 3-4 days or until rain "washes" them, then it's done all over again. Kinda like recycling dirty sox....when they get dirty, put them out to keep the deer away and wear the clean ones... Of course our favorite sox here in New England are Red Sox...Another thing to try...Beg, borrow , steal or buy a dog....I have not had many deer in the back yard since I got a new dog last Spring (yes, it's a Springer). I know the deer are still back there by their sign but the damage to the property had been almost nill....Good Luck on this one......Jimmy

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I use Irish Spring soap along the fence line. I also use 'Deer Blocker' spray from my local Co-Op.

RE: problem deer
 

human hair

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There is a product, not sure exactly what brand or whatever, but it is like a fence made of only one strip of ribbon that you put all around your stuff and they spray some stuff on it, never used it, but seen it advertised on TV. They put it around a young food plot to keep the deer out so it could grow.

RE: problem deer
 

give me a call, ur address, and a tree 2 sit in and ill solve your problem.

actually what might work is asking a barber shop if you can come in and have the hair they cut off people and sprinkling it around the edges of the spot you want 2 keep the deer off of

RE: problem deer
 

Hang a few bars of soap off of the branches by strings. a lock or two of human hair wouldn't hurt, but would lose it's effectiveness rather quickly.
If the deer get used to the smell of soap, you will save money when hunting season comes around...
;)

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we use a chemicak called invisable fence and anything u spray they will not eat unless nothing can be fould for miles but the bad thing is that u cant just spray a line around ur trees you have to spray the trees

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GBhunter is talking about Plotsaver. www.plotsaver.com

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All of the above sometimes works . .sometimes nothing works

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in the cabelas master catalog spring 2004 on page 239
scarecrow sprinkler it shoots water at anything that moves
or shoot, shovel, and shut up

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WD 40 works well when I place all around other treestands hunters put up and leave in the woods. LOL. I never done this but actually heard that it works.

RE: problem deer
 

125 grain Thunderhead at about 200 fps seems to work most of the time